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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: conferences - IOUG vs OOW
Ditto. There are some great technical sessions at OOW, but the percentage
is dramatically lower. Oracle chooses the vast majority of the
presentations at OOW and their motivation is quite different from that of
IOUG. It seems that every morning at OOW is largely consumed with keynote
(e.g. "pump me up" marketing) sessions. One per conference is about all I
can take - sometimes even that is too much ;-) In a way its OK though - you
can usually just sleep in! [Actually, they seem to have caught on to this
(at both conferences!) and now scatter them throughout the day more].
A huge plus is that the crowd at IOUG-A Live! (nee IOUW) is *MUCH* smaller. The possibility of becoming roadkill, as in the inter-session stampede at the Moscone center, doesn't exist at IOUW. There are more/better chances of running into and hanging with your homies from the list. At the IOUG conference (especially), some of the best technical "sessions" are/were on the sun deck, in Starbucks, etc. The roundtables at IOUW are a real plus also.
One advantage that OOW does have though is that Oracle usually lets some of their best deep-geeks escape from the bowels of the mothership to go to the conference. I always seem to get chances to drag them off for a little one-on-one time or at least some ad hoc small group discussion. (Its nice to have friends in low places!)
Don Granaman
[certifiable OraSaurus]
my preference when I have to choose is IOUG over OOW
OOW tends to have a lot more marketing/Oracle employee (so it feels like marketing) presentations
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